I can only imagine that 'wend' (also current in Scandinavia, now normally meaning 'go back') behaved like 'send'. Would there not be a difference between "he went his way" and "he wended his way"? I see

Scots-English / English-Scots Dictionary, Lomond Books (1998 / 2001), ISBN 0-947782-26-5. The word is (unlike some) included in both sections, from one spelling to the other and back again. 1998 sounds very 'late' for a citation for a

David schrieb: But it's not irrelevant. You might easily say, e.g., "the kitchen cupboard door handle has broken." What's the difference between the construct of that and, e.g., "my sister wife husband has gout"? I find

What it says. Just an ordinary English chain of connection ... is sister to the woman to whom I am married. Ah, your wife's sister's husband. Or perhaps your sister-in-law's husband. My sister-in-law husband could be my brother. But

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RP is spoken by 2 to 5% of the British (statistics from the early 1990s). It is of course difficult to draw the line between RP and another accent or say exactly what "Modified Standard" actually is. It would be interesting to apply the

I would say that to an ordinary user of the USAmerican form of English there is no important difference (nor ... films) but there is certainly a difference to an ordianry user of English English. Can't say for Welsh English, etc. Can you

At 23:58:10 on Thu, 24 Nov 2005, apprentice (Email Removed) wrote in : Is there any difference between those two? There can be, but there needn't be. By which I mean that the verb "learned", when pronounced as one syllable, is

By the way, are there any specific words from Am English that are anchored in Brit English? Although there are minor differences in orthography, vocabulary and grammar between British and US English, the two dialects are generally mutually

Don Myers wrote on 20 Nov 2004: Teachers tell students to practice reading. Students then run across many words they've never heard pronounced. As they see the ... quickly pick out the word in a list be helpful even though there is no meaning